This month we looked at some of the leading IDS/IPS products. This has been a staple of our annual Group Test reviews schedule and that has given us a chance to track the evolution of these products and the markets they serve. This year there are two noticeable changes. First, the footprint we are seeing is decidedly distributed. Second, the functionality continues to approach universal threat management. There is another trend that, really, is an outgrowth of the functionality trend. There are fewer real IDS/IPS products in the marketplace. This is exactly opposite from the trend we saw last month in UTM products and that is no accident. IDS/IPS vendors see the writing on the wall: the IDS/IPS as a stand-alone product is a dying breed. We made the same observation the month before relative to anti-malware gateways.
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